Category: International

People watch stock prices on a digital broadcast outside the Bombay Stock Exchange on Friday. Currency, equity and oil markets around the world are feeling the effects of the British vote to leave the EU. This much is certain: Friday was a lousy day to be a saver. Thanks to

This is where the Burning Brigade was housed. The apparatus in the middle is not the original, but ones like it were used as ramps so that the bodies could be stacked high and set alight. All the pits at Ponar were originally dug by the Russians to store fuel.

Union flags fly as banners across a street in central London on Tuesday. EU leaders attempted to rescue the European project and Prime Minister David Cameron sought to calm fears over the U.K.’s vote to leave the bloc as ratings agencies downgraded the country. Days after the U.K. voted to

The Neopanamax cargo ship, Cosco Shipping Panama, approaches the new Agua Clara locks, part of the Panama Canal expansion project, near the port city of Colon, Panama, on Sunday. The inauguration of a long-awaited Panama Canal expansion is underway. The colorful ceremony celebrating the culmination of this $5 billion project

Taiwan’s Navy Chief of Staff Mei Chia-shu discusses the inadvertent launching of a missile during a news conference in Taipei Friday. A fishing boat captain is dead and China is asking for a “responsible explanation,” after an anti-ship missile was launched toward China from a Taiwanese Navy vessel Friday. Navy

Advocates for the U.K. leaving the EU wave Union flags and cheer as the results come in at the Leave.EU referendum party at Millbank Tower in central London early Friday morning. Updated 9:42 a.m. ET Voters in the U.K. have decided to leave the European Union, a decision that has

Supporters of the ‘Stronger In’ Campaign watch the results of the EU referendum being announced at a results party at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Friday. U.K. voters have decided to leave the European Union — a result that’s left many Brits reeling, especially young people. Social media

Markets

President Obama speaks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Concerns about a possible “Brexit” were floating in the air as British investors met with state economic teams at the two-day summit. If you’re on the economic development team for your state, you are happy — dancing-in-the-street

Treatments

When mental health professionals don’t take insurance, only the wealthy can afford their help. There’s something that really bothers Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys. When he thinks of all the years he has spent training the next generation of psychiatrists, the enormous investment in medical school and residency, he wants